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SPRING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100565 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1886-08-01 — 144th most senior of the 1104 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: SAMPSON FRASIER CONT (1886-05-01). Immediately behind: SCOTT DITCH (1887-04-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29038.13362 | 1886-08-01 | 1941-12-04 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 165 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 497 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 510 AF — 103% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 419 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 102 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 581 | 14th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 139 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 306 | 1st lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 57 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 619 | 15th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 118 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 422 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 73 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 422 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 88 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 511 | 11th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 123 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 497 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 121 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 509 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 136 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 428 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 118 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 401 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 114 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 393 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 122 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 539 | 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 132 | 4.0 |
| 2000 | 543 | 13th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 130 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 510 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 112 | 3.0 |
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